Jiang treats the story as paradoxical because Saint Francis seems willing to cooperate with a corrupt papal guarantee of heaven until a fallen angel blocks the transfer.
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Fallen angel
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "um one of the fallen angels says you can't go because um you gave father and counsel and so your actions determine your place..."
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Jiang defines the black cherub as a fallen angel from one of the angelic orders discussed in Paradise.
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"um one of the fallen angels says you can't go because um you gave father and counsel and so your actions determine your place..."
"...is an angel right so a black sherbin would be a fallen angel yes so remember when we were in paradise there were many..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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